How To Install mutter-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mutter-common
mutter-common is:
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the shared files. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: mutter-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 168 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Source: mutter Version: 3.36.7+git20201123-0.20.04.1 Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Description-en: shared files for the Mutter window manager Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the shared files. Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected]
Package: mutter-common Architecture: all Version: 3.36.1-3ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: misc Source: mutter Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 164 Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Filename: pool/main/m/mutter/mutter-common_3.36.1-3ubuntu3_all.deb Size: 13292 MD5sum: 0ebb49fa37f8c349fe19672dba3e4db0 SHA1: f804d07b2f5287b1eb288ba8b7881d8caa73c02c SHA256: b94d3ecf289968a338b0ab43007aa8664d73562ff4bf04652c417a66598bc2cd Description-en: shared files for the Mutter window manager Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the shared files. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install mutter-common on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mutter-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mutter-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mutter-common
Install mutter-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mutter-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mutter-common
Install mutter-common Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mutter-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mutter-common
How To Uninstall mutter-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mutter-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mutter-common
Uninstall mutter-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mutter-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mutter-common
Remove mutter-common Configurations and Data
To remove mutter-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mutter-common
Remove mutter-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mutter-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mutter-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
